Mary

“take your trials and turn them into triumphs, to turn your contests into victories, to fight and never let anyone else define or defeat you.”
― Richard Williams, Black and White: The Way I See It

“Perhaps what we modern people need most is to be genuinely shaken, so that where life is grounded, we would feel its stability; and where life is unstable and uncertain, immoral and unprincipled, we would know that, also, and endure it. Perhaps that is the ultimate answer to the question of why God has sent us into this time, why He permits this whirlwind to go over the earth, and why He holds us in such a state of chaos and in hopelessness and in darkness-and why there is no end in sight.”
― Alfred Delp, Advent of the Heart: Seasonal Sermons and Prison Writings - 1941-1944

“The second week of the trial contained all the elements of a soap opera; accusations of rape, death threats, suicide attempts, surprise tactics and allegations of police conspiracies.”
― María Celeste Arrarás, Selena's Secret: The Revealing Story Behind Her Tragic Death

“You have to open a lot of oysters before you find a pearl.”
― María Celeste Arrarás, Selena's Secret: The Revealing Story Behind Her Tragic Death